Rezension
"Patricia Neville has lit up Frame’s writing world for me more vividly than any of the many who have tried to write about this complex, challenging writer. Everything becomes new in her fresh approach, making this the only place to start for old Frame hands and young ones, too. All this by answering a simple question: 'What did this writer read?'"—Patrick Evans, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand "From the moment she could read, Janet Frame had been engaged in a constant dialogue with those who, like her, had chosen to live in 'the City of Words.' Janet Frame’s World of Books picks up almost one by one all the many-layered borrowings and echoes so delicately woven into the rich fabric of her novels. It also examines a large number of translations of her work and their critical reception. An insightful and richly-documented study, Patricia Neville's book will delight not only scholars, but all the admirers of Frame’s fiction."—Jeanne Delbaere, Professor Emerita of English Literature, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
“In referencing and analysing both the well-known and lesser known echoes that reverberate all through the author’s work, Neville offers the first extensive view of Janet Frame in conversation with other authors, making Janet Frame’s World of Books a welcome contribution to contemporary criticism.”―Cindy Gabrielle, Independent Scholar, Liège, Belgium
"Not only is Neville very familiar with Frame’s writings, but she also displays impressive erudition in her knowledge of French, German, American writers, poets and critics as well. She has excavated a mine. This is a very complete, fascinating, innovative and timely work, written in excellent style by a critic who is also undeniably, and like Frame herself, a lover of words. Neville’s work contributes to renewing criticism on Frame which has tended up to now to neglect this crucial aspect of her work."—Claire Bazin, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 43.1 | 2020
